Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Department of Agriculture in 1964. When other potential sugar-beet processors became unavailable for the project, Muskie helped bring in Vahlsing, who already operated a potato-processing plant in Easton, Me., to build a sugar refinery there. Now Muskie, who opened doors in Washington for Vahlsing and helped him obtain financing, must absorb some of the blame for the mess...
...more seriously disruptive and intimidating activities that took place on December 11, the Committee has no doubt that this chain of episodes represented a clear progression toward greater gravity from the events of December 5th. The invocation of temporary suspension on December 11, along with the need to obtain a Court injunction in order to bring about the departure of those occupying University Hall, attests to the increasingly critical nature of occupations. There can be little question that both occupations, that of December 5 and that of December 11, were obstructive of the normal operations of the University community...
...precisely that we will be "crowded into marginal existence by famine." Only the most extreme efforts will succeed in avoiding this end, and those efforts will be effective only if they are instituted immediately. As for the "quality of human life," the only sure way to obtain quality is by limiting quantity. If there exists a broad consensus among scientists, it is that the imperative of our age is the population dynamic, and that, if the end comes, it comes not with a bang, nor even a whimper, but rather with a birth...
Publisher William Randolph Hearst: His Anglophobia comes "from no particular aversion to Great Britain, except at moments when he remembers that in England he counts for nothing and is systematically (and rightly) ignored. He would probably like to be pro-British often and long enough to obtain a permanent fooling on some aristocratic level...
...Cuban missile crisis and the espionage intrigues that went on behind the headlines. While the heroes are pro-American and the villains pro-Russian, Hitchcock looks down his nose at all of them. The hero, for instance, sacrifices his wife, lover and (almost) his son-in-law to obtain information for the American government...